Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.

That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.

The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.

Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.

Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.

The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

-- Robert Preidt Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCES: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, May 24, 2012

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Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.

That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.

The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.

Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.

Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.

The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

-- Robert Preidt Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCES: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, May 24, 2012

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Google’s Problem With the European Union

Google has a problem with the European Union: more specifically the European Commission. We know in general what that problem is: organisations like Fairsearch are complaining that Google is abusing its dominant position and that therefore the Commission should stop them doing so. However, we don’t in fact know what in detail is the problem: nor the laws under which this is a problem nor even under what legal authority the Commission is taking action.
As Eric Schmidt has said:

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Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Tuesday is set for a showdown with the European Commission’s antitrust commissioner when he rejected suggestions the search giant will have to change how it presents search results in Europe.
Speaking at Google’s Big Tent event in Hertfordshire, Schmidt said “we disagree that we are in violation” of European monopoly rules and said Joaquín Almunia, the antitrust commissioner, had not outlined the EC’s objections.

Now it’s true that Almunia has written to Google and you can read that letter here. The problem is that there’s no actual “you’re doing this which is wrong because of this law here”. There is instead simply a series of four points about which they have “concerns” and then they give Google a few weeks to entirely change the way they do business to address these concerns.

If Google comes up with an outline of remedies which are capable of addressing our concerns, I will instruct my staff to initiate the discussions in order to finalise a remedies package. This would allow to solve our concerns by means of a commitment decision – pursuant to Article 9 of the EU Antitrust Regulation – instead of having to pursue formal proceedings with a Statement of objections and to adopt a decision imposing fines and remedies.

The point about such a more formal investigation is that in the process of it the Commission would have to a) clarify exactly what they’re objecting to and why and b) that they have the legal right to complain about such things and c) prove that what Google is doing is in fact in violation of one law or another.

Which is, to my highly cynical mind, why they would rather not have to go through such a process and instead gain and administrative disposition of the complaint.
As to Fairsearch themselves, the original complainants, it may or may not be entirely correct but it’s certainly possible to dismiss them as those who have attempted to compete with Google and have simply failed to do so. Thus the rushing to Nanny in the form of the Commission to get what they cannot gain through their own efforts.
Finally, in economic terms, that Google has a monopoly is obviously untrue. It’s the largest of a number of contestants in the market, this much is true. But market dominance is not in itself an economic reason for legal or political action. Only possession of an uncontestable such position is. And since anyone can indeed start up a new search engine, indeed people try just that every couple of months, there just doesn’t seem to be any reason at all why Google should be forced to change its ways in the first place. Further, any web user has a choice of engines to use: there just isn’t a lock in which would justify action.

Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

Click Here!THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.
That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.
The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.
Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.
Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.
The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

Click Here!THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.
That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.
The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.
Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.
Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.
The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

Click Here!THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.
That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.
The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.
Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.
Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.
The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Accutane Update – Or How An Acne Problem Has Now Made Me a Vegan….

When I cruised on the Disney Fantasy back in March, I was completely and totally exhausted.  While my fellow Traveling Moms went to shows and hung out at the various clubs on board, I sat in bed watching Shark Tank and going to bed early.  I mentioned the exhaustion to my dermatologist but she wasn’t too concerned.

Until my blood work came back with high liver enzymes.  I was immediately taken off of Accutane for two weeks, and I found that the exhaustion lifted as soon as I stopped taking the pills.  I returned to the doctor this morning to find that my liver enzymes had returned to normal.

And then, she mentioned my cholesterol.  I’ve always had high cholesterol, and both of my parents and my sister have high cholesterol also.  Accutane also makes cholesterol rise.

“What are you eating?”, she asked, in a somewhat judgmental tone.  “Chicken, fish, fruit, rice…..”, I replied…. someone defensively.  I felt obese, overweight, unhealthy, and gross – in addition to having bad acne.

Then she put me on a vegan diet.  Vegan… as in no meat.  No fish. No cheese. No milk in my coffee.  How in the world do I eat vegan?  Any tips?

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